Gillian Anderson Would Like to Play a Bond Villain, So What Are We Waiting For Exactly?

The X-Files revival season was a thing that happened this year, with the show returning to solid if not spectacular reviews. The season finale of the six-episode comeback airs Monday night, which unfortunately means we will again have to deal with Gillian Anderson not being on our television screens. Anderson is famous for playing Agent Dana Scully on X-Files, and for not having aged since 1993. Over the weekend, Anderson was asked during a Twitter Q&A what role she would love to have if she ever played a villainous role, and her answer was pretty intriguing.

A quick recap: Javier Bardem put on his Bond villain hat for Skyfall, which for my money is the second-best Bond movie in the Daniel Craig era. Bardem played a former MI6 agent with an axe to grind against M, and he was all sorts of creepy. At one point in the movie he pretty much removed his entire mouth from his face. Bardem was a great, memorable Bond villain. And Anderson probably would be too!

First off, Anderson can definitely play creepy. Her character in the TV-version of Hannibal was awesome, in which she played Hannibal Lecter's psychiatrist. You know how crazy you have to be to give that man advice while carrying on a romantic relationship with him? Anderson's low-whisper voice and dead-in-the-eyes, glazed-over face from her character on that show would be a great base for a villainous role.

Secondly, while we often talk about the racial diversity of Bond himself, we hardly ever talk about the gender diversity for a series stuck in the 1950s when it comes to women. Even Craig himself has called the character misogynistic. We can quickly begin remedying this situation by giving a woman a villainous role in which she's Bond's equal, and they don't have sex within their first four scenes. And her name isn't Pussy. And she actually does some cool bad-guy things, unlike Christoph Waltz in the underwhelming Spectre.

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